CVE-2026-19547

Ghostscript for Windows is vulnerable to local privilege escalation through PostScript resource file hijacking. Due to the application searching for PostScript resource files in predictable paths under C:\\gs\\ that do not exist by default on Windows installations, combined with Windows default ACLs allowing any authenticated user to create directories at the root of C:\\, an attacker who is an authenticated local user can create the expected directory structure and plant a malicious PostScript file. When any user or service subsequently runs Ghostscript, the planted file is automatically loaded and executed with the full privileges of the Ghostscript process. This results in full compromise of Ghostscript process context, as well as running arbitrary code on the machine with Ghostscript process privileges. This issue was fixed in version 10.08.0.

CVSS

No CVSS.

References

Link	Resource
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709522
https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/09/CVE-2026-19547
https://ghostscript.com/

Configurations

No configuration.

History

29 Sep 2026, 10:17

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2026-09-29 10:17

Updated : 2026-09-30 19:38

NVD link : CVE-2026-19547

Mitre link : CVE-2026-19547

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-19547

JSON object : View

Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-426

Untrusted Search Path

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